Natural hazards · Booneville

Booneville, KY natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Booneville comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. 10 federal disasters brought FEMA money into town.

FEMA National Risk Index, December 2025 · OpenFEMA claims, aid & declarations

Expected damage

How exposed is Booneville?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Booneville to be higher than in 84% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding69%Cold waves8%Strong wind6%Tornadoes5%Everything else12%

By hazard

What Booneville faces

Each hazard’s share of the damage FEMA expects here, and how that compares with the rest of the country.

Inland flooding

69% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 95% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Cold waves

8% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 72% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 92% of U.S. places

Recorded about 5 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

5% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 58% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 75 years in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherHeat wavesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic activity

Flood risk changes street by street. Check a specific address on FEMA’s flood map, and ask about flood insurance before you buy.

Flood insurance claims

Does Booneville flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Booneville.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Booneville isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Owsley County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

3flood-prone properties bought out and cleared

Disasters that hit Booneville

10 federal disasters brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Booneville itself: aid to households, or repair grants to the City of Booneville.

Brought FEMA money into BoonevilleDeclared for Owsley County only

2025

Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides

74 households applied for aid $378K aid approved $291K to the City of Booneville for repairs

2024

Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Tornadoes, Landslides, and Mudslides

$199K to the City of Booneville for repairs

2022

Severe Storms, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides

129 households applied for aid $542K aid approved $196K to the City of Booneville for repairs

2021

Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Tornadoes, Flooding, Landslides

$70K to the City of Booneville for repairs

2021

Severe, Storms, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides

48 households applied for aid $107K aid approved $560K to the City of Booneville for repairs

2015

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-Line Winds, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslide

2 households applied for aid $2K aid approved

2009

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Flooding and Mudslides

231 households applied for aid $397K aid approved $36K to the City of Booneville for repairs

2004

Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Flooding, and Mudslides

40 households applied for aid $38K aid approved

2003

Severe Storms, Flooding, Mud and Rock Slides, and Tornadoes

35 households applied for aid $81K aid approved

2003

Severe Winter Ice and Snow Storms, Heavy Rain, Flooding, Tornadoes, and Mud and

9 households applied for aid $37K aid approved

Owsley County has had 42 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and floods.

About these numbers

How to read this page

An average, not a forecastFEMA’s National Risk Index estimates the damage 18 kinds of natural hazards cause in a typical year, from decades of records and models. A quiet decade can follow a bad year.

Compared by rate“Higher than N%” compares yearly damage as a share of what’s here, so a big city isn’t rated riskier just for having more buildings. Booneville is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Booneville’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Booneville. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

Sources: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025); OpenFEMA: NFIP redacted claims, multiple-loss properties, community status book and residential penetration rates, housing assistance (owners and renters), public assistance funded projects, hazard mitigation properties and disaster declarations. Census tracts: U.S. Census Bureau.